Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-05-07
RELIGIOUS WORLD.
NETTING OF THE SOUTHERN BAPTIST
CONVENTION AT LOUISVILLE.
The Proceedings Of the First Day Organ
ization and Election Of 0ficeFs-
The Addresses.
[srccIal teleeram % the DIspalch.l

The Southern Baptist Convention
was organized at Augusta. Ga.. IN 1919,
because the boards of the old " Fri
cnnial Convention" with which the
southern churches then cooperated'
took extreme an,i-slavery ground,
,zaiuQ 50 fer as % declare that they
would not appoint STAKEHOLDER as
missionary either nthc home OF foreign
field
Since the war, however, the relations
between northern and southern Bap-
ti>ts have been very pcasani and they
annually exchange maternal mossen-
GERS. although there is no probability
that they will ever unite again IN the
same organization. Indeed the con-
viction is growing with many of tie
wiscst men that both Of these organiza-
lions are too large. and that there will
have 20 bc in the not distant future a
still further division OF territory.
The membership (white) IN connec-
lion with churches in utilization with
the Southern Baptist Convention was
rcportcd last year 10 be 1893, 800. The
convention is mcrelya missionary body
composed Of representatives on the
basis Of the contributions of the States,
aud has no ecclesiastical authority what
ever. lis two boards, through which it
does It's work, are the Foreign Mission
Board. located at Richmond, and the
Home Mission Board located at Allan
Ia. Various other matters Of general
interest such as the work OF the Theo-
logical Seminary located at Louisville,
&c. are from TIM to time presented
60 the convention and suitable action
concerning them taken. .- .-%
The convention has met in Louisville
upon two previous occaslons-in 1857
and in 1870. The session is bein Iheld
in the Broadway Baptist churcn (Rev.
n. Allen Upper, Jr., m cold Rich
mond boy" PASTOR, which is one of
the most beautiful church houses in the
country. and is monument of the
taste of Rev. Drs. !. Il. Hawthorne and
!. l.. Burrows, who were pastors when
the house was built. and then rebuilt
after being destroyed 10y fire.
The convention was called 70 order Mt
10 o'clock by the veteran president,
Dr. i. IL. Nell. After the usual devo-
tioual exercises the names of delegates
were reported, and il was found that
there were present one of the llrgest,
if not the largest, delegations which
the convention ever had, there being
over seven hundred present.
yIRGISIA's DELEGATION.
Nroipia had sixtv-two DELEGATES pres
ent at the opening Of tine session, with
others still expected. Her contribu-
ti0Es eLtitle her To- one hundred and
tighty.six delegates. KENTUCKY is en-
titled TO one hundred aud foty-nine
delegates. She had that number pres
snt, sDd had an even larger number
who were anxious to be delegates if
there had been places for them.
ORGANIZATION.
The convention organized Ivy elect
ing tie following officers: President,
Dr. 7. II. Nell. chancellor of the Uni
vc,Slty of Georgia Nice-Pfesidcnts;
l.. u. Ely, Esq. of Missouri Judge
Haralston, of Alabama; Colonel t. NJ.
Hovt. of South Carolina, and DIR. w.
T.. Hatcher. of Virginia. Secretaries
Rev. Dr. J. Lansing Burrows. of An
gusta, Ga, and Rev. DR.. o. Z. Gregory,
of Baltimore. Treasurer, George ".
Norton. Esq. of Louisville.
While waiting for the tellers to count
the ballots n number Of gentlemen
were called out and made brief and stir
ring speeches. Rev. Or. - s. Henson, of
Chicago. made an eloquent and telling
speech, in which he fcelingly alluded to
his old associates at Richmond College,
and the University Of Virginia, and
said that he owed more TO DIR. Robert
Rvland. the old president of Richmond
College. than to any other man, living
on dead.
DIR. RYLAND SPEAKS.
Or. Ryland, who now lives in Lex
ington. nv, was called ont and spoke
Of the great qualification il WAS to him
10 feel that he had been of any service
in preparing young men for lives of
usefulness. He Was nearly oighty-three
ycaas old, bat hadnever loved the Lord
or the pure old Gospel as be did to-day.
Rev. DR.. \. h. Strong, president of
Tie Rochester Theological Seminary ;
Rev. Dr. ). 4. Smith, OF Chicago; and
Rev. Or. j. NJ. Peudloton, of Pennsyl-
Sauia. made fratsrnal and effective
speeches.
DIR. BURROWS
Rev. DR.. j. l.. Burrows, Of Virginia,
made touchDply eloquent speech, IN
which hc spoke OF the passing away OF
the elder men, thanked God for the
Young men who were coming on, and
oppressed his willingness to leave the
work in such safe and competent hands.
The address OF welcome, an appro-
Jriete and eloquent one, was made by
Professor Marcus b. Almond, Of Louis
Vile formerly Of Eirmnil), at the
close of which he INTRODUCED some very
clacenil and appropriate verses which
A., had written especially for the occa-
son.
DR.. HAWTHORNE.
~ the request Of the president Rev.
III. Hawthorne, of Atlanta, made the
response to this address Of welcome.
H. was in his happiestvein, and thrilled
the vast crowd with an appropriate and
c.,creut speech, in the course of which
he Aloke Of Atlanta as "thc cieanest
CITY In the world, gave IL vivid sketch
of the dawn of southern progress, and
prophesied that the day Is not distant
when there will not be gilded saloon
ora dirty GROCERY from the Potomac to
the Rio Grande.
At the suggestion Of DR.. Reniroe, OF
Alabama. DIR. Dickinson led in feryent
PRAYER for Rev J. 3. Gambrill, OF
Jackson, Mississippi, whose son was
shot last night in an alteration grow
ing ont of a prohibition contest
REPORT OF THE FOREIGN MISSION BOARD
This afternoon Rev. DR.. II. 4. Tup-
uer. corresponding socretaiy' read tue
report Of the Foreign-Mission Board
qhe rsrort begius with an approPria1e rsler-
.fee 10 (,cd's guidance and sustaining power III
,be rfeat work OF preschir tue Uospei among
fb. tlatiots Ind makes he fplloElug auuSiou
a., no dcath Of a weil-knOwn cltiLoh VI huon-
"In the death OF our auditor. Joseph y. Cos
tr.u pa. who fen on sleep tho AN OF Matun,
tte loard ha. sustained severe loss. hS 10
feeo Tor twelve Yeas . faithful meuDer ~ ~
foard. and was an oa.cer a;conpii~h,oi ant
-..ruunIou.ly exact Among Othet IvsVi u'4on''
he following was adopted Dy the O3ai - ,,,,,,
Kesolrtd. that We bear cheeTiul 'o' st''.yiy